_ Synopsis Pre-solicitation for Empower West Africa_Dec_13_2023.pdf

PRESOLICITATION NOTICE

Original Published Date: December 12, 2023 Original Date Offers Due: N/A Inactive Policy: Automatic Original Inactive Date: Jan 08, 2024 RFP Number: 72067424R00002 RFP Title: Empower West Africa (EWA) To All Prospective Offerors:

This is a presolicitation notice in accordance with FAR 5.207. Please note the following:

(1) Action Code: 541690

(2) Date: The proposed date for releasing the solicitation is on or about January 8, 2024.

(3) Year: The estimated period of performance for the EWA activity is five (5) years.

(4) Product or Service Code: R408-Support Professional: Program Management/Support.

(5) Contracting Office Address: 100 Totius Street, Groenkloof, Pretoria, South Africa

(6) Subject: Empower West Africa (EWA)

(7) Proposed Solicitation Number: 72067424R00002

(8) Closing Response Date: We anticipate the closing date will be middle to end of February 2024. The Closing date and time will be included in the solicitation that is released in January.

(9) Contact Point or Contracting Officer: Nancy Kleinhans, Contracting Officer

(10) Contract Award and Solicitation Number: See information to point no. 7

(11) Estimated Contract Award Dollar Amount: Between $65,000,000 and $75,000,0000

(12) Contract Award Date: The proposed award date will be at the end of June 2024.

(13) Description: The United States Government, represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development

(USAID) Southern Africa intends to solicit for a new Power Africa project to increase the availability of and access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity and modern electricity in West Africa (WA). This program will connect more African homes, businesses, and institutions to electricity on the grid and beyond the grid; reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector by supporting cleaner electricity generation delivered by the grid and accelerating distributed renewable energy (DRE); and, working in partnership with the Power Africa Coordinators Office, USAID Missions in West Africa, West African governments, and regional institutions to improve the enabling environment for energy sector investment (including climate finance), energy trade, and innovations in the energy sector.

(14) Place of Contract Performance: Western Africa, which includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

(15) Set-aside Status: There is no set aside for this procurement. The procurement will be conducted through full and open competition, under which any type of organization (large or small commercial [for profit] firms, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations) is eligible to compete. The procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 apply.

This notice satisfies the synopsis requirement in FAR 5.2 and is NOT an Invitation for Bid (IFB) or a Request for Proposals (RFP). Issuance of this synopsis does not in any way obligate the U.S. Government to issue a solicitation nor does it commit the U.S. Government to pay for costs incurred in the preparation and submission of a proposal.

Any solicitation issued will be posted to www.sam.gov.

Thank you for your interest in USAID programs.

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